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Twenty One

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Summary

Twenty One is a game show[1]. It draws 710 Wikipedia views per month (game show category, ranking #3 of 19).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Jack Barry[3]
  • Genre: quiz show[4]
  • Production company: Universal Television[5], Barry & Enright Productions[6]
  • Presenter: Jack Barry[7], Maury Povich[8]
  • Commons category: Twenty-One (game show)[9]
  • Language of work or name: English[10]
  • Original broadcaster: NBC[11], Ion Television[12]
  • Color: black-and-white[13], NTSC[14]
  • Country of origin: United States[15]
  • Start time: September 12, 1956[16]
  • End time: October 16, 1958[17]
  • Significant event: 1950s quiz show scandals[18]
  • Different from: Twenty One[19]

Why It Matters

Twenty One is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . fernsehserien.de. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Chimatronx · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Original broadcaster → NBC, Ion Television
    End time → +1958-10-16T00:00:00Z
    Country of origin → —
    Creator → —
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ End time: 16 October 1958"
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